<p>Best Values in Private Colleges 2011-12
by Jane Bennett Clark
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Kiplinger.com</p>
<p>Top 10</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
</ol>
<p>Source: best-values-private-colleges-kiplinger:</a> Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance</p>
<p>p.s. never mind the typo 'value'.. lol</p>
<p>Of course, these top 10 are all reach-for-everyone schools.</p>
<p>A list of 100 universities and 100 liberal arts colleges from the same article is here:
[Best</a> Values in Private Colleges, 2010-11](<a href=“Kiplinger | Personal Finance News, Investing Advice, Business Forecasts”>Kiplinger | Personal Finance News, Investing Advice, Business Forecasts)</p>
<p>Odd that NYU is #57 on the universities list even though it has the highest average student loan debt of all of the schools that do not list “NA” in the category.</p>
<p>^ That shows how useful that particular list is - not at all. And the list is supposedly based on “combination of quality and affordability”.</p>
<p>Among the LAC’s -Williams, Amherst Davidson, Bowdoin, Holy Cross all in top 15.</p>
<p>If you sort by merit aid, you will find the very good schools that give merit aid.
I used this method to suggest schools for my older daughter to apply to.</p>
<p>If you qualify for financial aid, and are a top tier student, the top 10 universities are great values. </p>
<p>If you are in the next tier academically and don’t qualify for financial aid, there are some very good universities that will discount COA for you.</p>